Valve



No.'858,49 7. v PATENTED JULY 2, 1907.

w. E. BARNES.

VALVE. wrrmoumn rrnnn MAR. 15, 1906.

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

IW ALTER EsMoiIn BARNES, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 THERMOGRADE VALVE COMPANY, OF .BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

VALVE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application filed March 16,1906. Serial Nosoam,

Tooll whom it my camera? 7 Be it known that I, WALTER EsMoNn BARN-Es, aciti zen of the United States, and a resident of Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Valves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to valves, and particularly to control valves for steam radiators in steam-heating systems.

My invention consists'in certain improvements upon valves of the character shown in the patent to F. Tudor, No. 705,981, dated July 29, 1902, to which patent referonce is made for afull description of the adaptation and use of such galves in low" pressure steam heating systems. In such valves as that shown in said Tudor patent, the closing of the valve upon the valve seat is wholly dependent upon the efliciency of the spring which urges the valve toward the valve seat. The opening movement of suchvalve is positive and the I closing movement thereof is yielding. In case, therefore, a bit of scale or dirt should lodge between the valve and valve seat, and the strength of the spring urging the valve toward the valve seat were insufficient to crush the same, the valve would not fully close but would beheld by the foreign substance out of engagement with the valve seat, causing the valve to leak.

The principal object of my invention is to provide means positively to effect a final closing of the valve upon the valve seat, without having the whole operation'of the valve positive, or discarding the advantages of the spring and cam controlled valve of the kind shown in said Tudor patent.

In the accompanying drawings 'which illustrate an embodiment of my invention: Figure 1 is a vertical 1011;]

riorly threaded at its upper end as shown, and the tween the openings 3and 4 is controlled by the valve 5,

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The valve seat is shown at 51. The valve 5 is provided with a valve stem 6 which passes through thepacking gland 7 forming a partof'the screw cap 2 Upon the outer end of the valve stem 6 a handle H is secured.

Upon-the top of the'valve' body is secured a cam 8 which is mounted on the flange 9. The cam 8 co-operates with a cam follower 10 secured to the valve stem 6 through the arm h of handle H. As the handle H is turned in the direction of the rise of the cam 8 it causes the valve stem to be raised as it is turned, and the valve 5 to be lifted from its seat. The valve opening and the pitch of the cam 8 are so proportioned that within the limits of a single revolution of the valve handle, the valve may gradually be opened to admit 'to the radiator the quantity of steam required under any given condition. The development of the cam may be such as that fully described in said Tudor patent, and the details thereof are not essential to an understanding of the present invention.

Extending from the screw cap 2 into the casing 1 is a skirt 11 preferably cast integral with said screw cap and surrounding the valve stem. Mounted on the valve stem so as to turn with it is'the cup-shaped sleeve or thimble 12, the interior of which provides a socket 21 for the coil spring 13 surrounding the stem and abutting at one end against the thimble 12 and at the other end against the packing ring or follower 22. The packing is shown at 23. The spring 13 thus in effect abuts valve seat, I provide projections fixed within the valve casing and projections carried by the valve stem, having cam surfaces and co-operating with each other so as to operate to force the valve upon the valve seat in' its final movement, thus effe'cting a positive closing of the valve, but which are inoperative during the opening movement of the valve. The projections fixed within the valve body as aforesaid are shown at 14 and 15. These preferably consist of lugs cast integral with the skirt 11. The co-operating projections carried by the valve stem are shown at 16 and 17. These projections are lugs cast integral with the thimble or sleeve 12, and are provided with cam surfaces to co-operate with the lugs 14 and 15, respectively, being so placed and having such pitch as to come into action only after the valve 5 has approximately reached its seat, andv finally to force the valve positively upon its seat with the last closing movement of the valve handle H. The co-operating projections of each pair, that is, the pair 14 and 16, and the pair 15 and 17, are offset from one another.

longitudinally of the valve stem as shown, so that durby, and theprojection or cam 17 will not collide with the projection 14, but will pass it by.

The thimble 12 has a square aperture 18 through which the valve stem 6 passes and the valve stem 6 at the part surrounded by the thilnble 12 is also made square as shown at,19,- so that the thimble will positively turnwith the valve stem. The thimble is otherwise loosely mounted on the stem, and the end of the thimble. abutting against the valve 5 is convex in form, as shown at 20, so that it may rock slightly if necessary and adjust itself to any unevenness or inaccuracies in v the structure or in the operation of the parts.

I claim;

1. In a valve body, a vnlveseut, a rotatable valve and its stem, means gradually to open said valve. means yieldingiy to urge the valve toward the valve seat. a projec-.

tion fixed within the valve body, and a projection co-opcrating therewith carried by the valve stem, said projections being adapted positively to effect the final closing of the valve upon the valve seat.

2. In a valve body, a valve seat, a rotatable valve and valve stem, a cam fixed to the valve body about the valve stem, a cam foiiower secured to the valve stem co operating with the cum to open the valve, :1 spring yieldingly urging the valve toward the valve seat, a projection fixed within the valve body, and a co-operating projection carried by the valve stem, one of said projections. having a cam surface, and said projections being relatively so arupon its seat.

3. In a valve body, a valve seat, a rotatable valve and valve stem, a cam fixed to the valve body about the valve stem. a cam follower secured to the valve stem co-operating wlth the cum 'to open the valve, a spring yieidingly urging the valve toward the valve sent, two projections fixed within the valve body on opposite sides thereof, two projections carried by the valve stem and cooperating with the projections fixed within the vaivebody, one ,of each pair of co-operating projections having a cam surface, said projections being adapted to positively effect the final closing of the valve upon its seat, and the projections of each pair being offset with relation to the other pair longitudinally of the valve stern, whereby the tions fixed within the valve body when, the valve stem is rotated to open the valve.

4. In a valve body, a valve seat, a rotatable valve having a valve stem, a cam tixed to the valve body about the valve stem, a cam follower secured to the valve stem cooperating with said cum to open the valve,- a sleeve mounted on the valve stem to turn therewith, a spring between the sleeve and the valve body yieidingly urging vnlve stem, a cam follower secured to the valve stem cooperating with said cain to open the valve, a spring yieldingly urging the valve toward the valve seat, a skirt extending from the screw cap into the casing and surrounding the valve stem, projections iixcd within said skirt, projections carried by the -vaive stem co-operating with said first named projections, one of each pair of co-opcrating projections having a cum surface, said projections being adapted to positively eltect the iinnl closing of the valve upon its seat.

6. In a valve body, a valve seat, a rotatable valve having a valve stem, a cum iixcd to the valve body about the valve stem, a cam follower secured to the valve stem co operating with the cum to open the valve, a thimblc mounted upon and turning with the valve stem and having a convex end surface abutting against the top of the valve proper, a coil spring surrounding the valve stem between the valve body and the thimble and yieldingly urging the valve toward the valve seat, projections ilxed within the valve body, and projections upon the thilnblc co-operating with said first pained projections, one of each pair of co-operating projections having a cam surface. said projections being adapted to positively ciicct ihc final closing of the valve upon its seat.

7. In a valve body, the valve casing closed at its upper end by a screw cap, a valve seat, a rotatable valve and its stern, a cam fixed to the screw cap about the valve stem, a cam follower secured to the valve stem co-opcrsting with said cam to open the valve, a thimbie mounted upon and turning with the valve stem and abutting ,against the upper surfaceoi' the valve, a coil spring surrounding the vulve stem, one end of which abuts against the thinibie within the socket formed thereby and the other end of, which abuts against the screw cap yleidlngiy urging the valve toward its valve seat, a skirt extending from the screw cap into the casing and surrounding said valve stem and spring, lugs upon said skirt, and cams upon said thimble adapted to co-operate with said lugs and positively to eifect the final closing of the valve upon the valve seat.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this thirteenth day of March, 1906.

WALTER ESMOND BARNES.

Witnesses:

' Rosnn'r CUSHMAN,

Josnrn '1. BRENNAN. 

